THREE Birmingham MPs are set to battle it out to see who represents two constituencies when the city loses a seat in the House of Commons.

THREE Birmingham MPs are set to battle it out to see who represents two constituencies when the city loses a seat in the House of Commons.

The existing 11 constituencies are to be reduced to ten because of a falling population.

As a result, the Labour Party faces a lengthy internal battle to see which sitting MPs survive and who is axed.

Lynne Jones, MP for Selly Oak, Steve McCabe, MP for Hall Green, and Roger Godsiff, MP for Sparkbrook and Small Heath, are affected.

Their three constituencies have been reduced to two in proposals drawn up by the Boundary Commission.

The MPs will be forced to compete for nominations to stand as Labour candidates in the next General Election, unless one of them voluntarily steps down.

The party's National Executive Committee, which includes Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and John Prescott, as well as West Midland MEP Michael Cashman, is to instruct local officials on how to make the selection.

Originally, the Commission recommended abolishing Sparkbrook & Small Heath, and distributing the areas it covered among neighbouring constituencies.

But this month it published radical new proposals which included drastic alterations to all three seats.